It's a dreaded Heatwave Harbinger, much maligned and undeservedly so, as it is not venomous as its mutant transcousin form is, the Spotted-Flood Harbinger. Either variety sucks the sap of garden vegetables, often during moonlit nights, (hence the black&white camouflage coloration), and then the only evidence you find of the thermotion is shriveled wilted and dehydrated produce. They batch hatch every 9 years, breed, and deposit eggs in dormancy, fertilized. The largest on record was 6 inches long, discovered by swimmers in a cove snacking in the grove at Indian Lake. Scientific name: helatious screamyjeebees.

Sauteed in garlic butter with crawfish and kohlrabi is a cajun delicacy.

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 66
At this date last year: 144
Total run in 2016: 155
In 2015: 271
In 2014: 401
In 2013: 257
In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269